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Cynthia Close

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Cynthia Close

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For the first 40 years of my life I was a dedicated visual artist. I had a natural ability to draw. That, combined with the fact I was born on Picasso's birthday was enough to get me a scholarship to Boston University where I spent 6 turbulent years starting in September 1963 discovering what life was all about. I emerged in 1969 with an MFA degree and a desire to get shown in the Whitney Biennial. I made it as far as the Boston Now exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art. In the intervening years I taught painting, drawing, color and design at the Art Institute of Boston where I eventually was named Dean of Admissions. While I no longer make art, my decades of immersion in artistic sensibilities have given some credibility to my writing about art. The examples here have been published in Art New England, The Vermont Art Guide, Vermont Woman and Art & Object. My artist profiles and features often appear in Artist’s Magazine and Pastel Magazine.    

Vito Acconci

Barbara Zucker

Alison Bechdel for ANE

Alison Bechdel Self Confessed for Art & Object

Directors Digressions

Edward Hopper in Vermont

Exposed, Helen Day Art Center

LandARTLab

Metro Gallery

Of Land and Local

Pat Steir

Patrick Shoemaker

Puppets: World on a String

Peter Schumann at BigTown

Rock and Roll Photography

Salzman: Soundings

Shelburne Museum: John Bisbee

Subtle Not Subtle: West Branch Gallery

Surveillance: Helen Day Art Center

Vermont, Fleming Museum: Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art

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The published works of Cynthia Close on documentary film, art, and women in the arts.

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